Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-10
Women.

UOu DlcSS tIClu lucy dr6 50 True
to principle. Wherever we find cul-
tivated women we find true, whole
souled prohibitionists. How could
they be otherwise? Buy up women!
Think how true she has always been
to herself, her country and her God.
Who fed -? who clothed? who toiled
by day and by night to support the
sinking spirits Of our hard pressed
revolutionary fo%refathers? Women.
Who watched with patient, loving
care the million of stalWart men of
this nation and Graded their infant
fears to sleep? Women. Who was
''last at the cross and first atthe tomb"
of Jesus? Women. Who first an
nounced the risen Lord? Women.
Who fed the hungry prophet of the
Lord with her last dust of meal?
Woman. Who takes mans lonely
den, the symbol of neglect, and on
vertS it into an Eden home? Woman.
Alas! and what is her reward for all
this sacrifice and toll to make life
tolerable to man? Let the spirits of
the winds at m%idnight's solemn hour
tell the story other love for him whose
manhood lies in his vomit in the
shadow of THAT modern hell-the sa-
loon.
O mothers! why dost thou weep
while others Iougho and her answer
comes as from a broken chord, "My
boy my boy!! Once he was sober,
manly, brave; the pride of my life,
the hope of my declining years, but
now, o God my boy-he fills a fell
on's cell-he was drinking when the
fatal deed was DONE" This is only
one Of the horrid pictures of the count
less thousands in the dark gallery of
woman's woe.
TITO hundred thousand women plead
today in Tennessee for the suppression
of that crime of crimes-the liquor
traffic, but so o o as her piteOus plea
goes up to God and down to men, a
devilish howl is heard upon her track
hunting her down to destroy her in
fIuence against the liquor devil.
Daughters of Tennessee, know We
not that a 6rdve man cannot insult
you? The whisky emissary howl
and rage against the prohibition wo-
men of Tennessee is but frothing
out its own shame. The prohibi-
ton women of our State land well
nigh all the women of the State are
for prohibition) know that the brave,
enlightened and true manhood of our
State not only endorse their untiring
labors for prohibition, but most fully
appreciate their earnest purpose to
help put down by constitutional and
statutory law the most ruinous and
pernlcious traffic that ever cursed
long suffering humanity.
Why don't the liquor oligarchy
try to buy the conscience of wo-
men as it has attempted to buy the
votes of men, and thereby silence
their wonderful power of tongue and
pen? All the seed of the woman
shall bruise the serpent's head despite
of those specimens of humanity that
still continue to fatten the old serpent
and whet his envenomed fangs.
0 we women of Tennessee, and es-
pecially We of Warren county, pray
on, labor on, fight On. Liberty and
Victory, the two beautiful bright
winged angels from paradiseare float
ing in the air around your banners
and soon they will join the sweet old
chorus made new by a new triumph,
"Peace on earth, good will to men"
whom you have lifted from their low
estate, namely the defense of whis-
ky.
We are in sympathy and love for
the success of the hope Of all Temper
ance workers. Weknow that the wo-
men are with the brave men of Ten
nessee in this glorious fight against
Gods foe and earth's foul cause.-the
saloon. TRUTH.
A Runplinp ,Joh.